HRES 1027
110th Congress
House
Congress
Congressional voting
Debt limit
Economics and Public Finance
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Record votes
Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to strike rule XXVIII, popularly known as the "Gephardt rule", and to require recorded votes on measures that increase the statutory limit on the public debt.
Introduced: March 6, 2008
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Mar 6, 2008
Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
Mar 6, 2008
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Amends Rule XXVIII (Statutory Limit on Public Debt) of the Rules of the House of Representatives to make it out of order to enact legislation that increases the statutory limit on the public debt unless the vote upon final passage of such measure is a recorded vote.
(Repeals the "Gephardt Rule" providing for mandatory adjustment of the statutory limit on the public debt to conform to a budget resolution.)
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Rules.
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